# Flight Test Engineer

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $112,000-$149,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

The Test and Evaluation team at Anduril plays a crucial role in ensuring that every product meets the highest standards of performance and reliability.

As a flight test engineer, you will be responsible for the evaluation of the software and hardware capabilities for operational suitability as well as Altius’s integration into the full suite of Anduril systems to complete complex operations.

Responsibilities:

- Test planning, execution, reporting, and evaluating the system under test (software and/or hardware)

- Support and plan test events conducted at test sites

- Configuration management of test-owned assets

- Generation of evaluation test plans and reports focusing on system functionality and suitability of software and hardware integration efforts

- Generate and execute test cards, conduct pre and post-flight briefings, and manage test events with diverse support teams

- Collaborate with SMEs and cross-functional teams within the business line through development and production testing, reporting of test findings, and test status

- Interface daily with hardware and software engineering teams

- Collect metrics for flight test events

Requirements:

- A bachelor’s degree or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution

- Ability to understand new concepts quickly and apply them accurately

- Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills

- Methodical, thorough, and detail-oriented

- Ability to work independently and as part of a team

- Current or able to acquire an FAA 14 CFR Part 107: Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems certification

- Current or able to acquire an FAA 14 CFR Part 61: Certification Pilots, Flight Instructors, and Ground Instructors

- Previous experience or working knowledge of National Airspace and UAS operating guidelines and regulations

- Ability to obtain a security clearance

- Able to work extended hours as required

- Ability to travel as required for planning and testing

Preferred Qualifications:

- Strong software and documentation experience; familiarity with Linux-based operating systems, networking, ssh, and command line

- 1-3 years flight test engineering or system-level testing experience

- Knowledge and experience with Group 2/3 fixed-wing systems

- Experience working with DOD programs

Benefits:

- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package

- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including health, recovery, and other support

## Skills

### Required
- flight test engineering
- software/hardware capability development
- evaluation for Altius UAS platform
- test planning
- execution
- reporting
- configuration management
- test-owned assets
- evaluation test plans
- reports
- system functionality
- suitability of software and hardware integration efforts
- test cards
- pre and post-flight briefings
- test events management
- collaboration with SMEs
- cross-functional teams
- hardware and software engineering teams
- metrics collection
- FAA 14 CFR Part 107
- FAA 14 CFR Part 61
- National Airspace
- UAS operating guidelines
- regulations
- security clearance

### Nice to have
- strong software and documentation experience
- Linux-based operating systems
- networking
- ssh
- command line
- 1-3 years flight test engineering or system-level testing experience
- Group 2/3 fixed-wing systems
- DOD programs

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